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Personally, for me, at the age of 36 I think this is personally my favorite decade for purely selfish reasons. I found my partner, am in the best shape of my life, and I have enough income to live "comfortably," where I didn't for most of the 2010s. However, outside of all that, to be super specific I really enjoyed the last quarter of the 2010s, with 2019 probably being a zenith year. I miss a lot of what life felt like before COVID, and this may simply be ignorance on my part, but while jerkoffs have always been around, the pandemic really brought out a bad side to a lot of people, and it sucked to see people that I liked and respected spout some pretty troubling perspectives and attitudes during it. Granted, you can say that they were always like that, and you would probably be right, but the pandemic was the catalyst for them to be very vocal about said attitudes.
the streaming era is over, though i think many people still think it is.
there are very few content creaters on Youtube that can do it well (instructional). most do it to get paid, so you have to pad videos for length. hard to find stuff that's short because it won't monetize well. people burn out because tehy want to do it as a job but many figure out eventually why most times people are one of the following at a time on this kind of stuff: editors, writers, on-camera talent, DPs/camera ops, graphics artists. Not everyone can afford to outsource some of that work too.
heck, the multibillion dollar corps get it right only some of the time. people are chasing views and then chasing relevancy long after their initial appearance. if anyone is curious, go check out Chelsea Karabin's youtube if it's still up.
we're rapidly heading back to cable subscription bundles but online, and more expensive. there's too much content being generated which is nice because it theoretically creates jobs but many end up fleeting because stuff gets canceled so quickly, and there's little patience for failure or bad press. imagine all your favorite shows from the 80s and 90s that had ROUGH starts but figured it out over a 6-7 year run.
also, people are way more tribalized than they were. this guy has been living across from my parents for 20 years but after finding out that he voted for Trump my dad has no interest in talking with him. except that he's pretty much been the same guy over the years so the only difference was the vote, when he could have made that decision at any point knowing he was republican.
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